Python-get string between to characters

Question

I need to one give me the string between ~ and ^.
I have a string like this:

~~~~ ABC ^ DEF ^ HGK > LMN ^  

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Answer 1

here is my solution:

your input:

In [12]: target = ' ~~~~ ABC ^ DEF ^ HGK > LMN ^  '

replace all the symbols or delimiters with ' ' and split the result

In [13]: b = re.sub(r'[^\w]', ' ', target).split()

In [14]: b
Out[14]: ['ABC', 'DEF', 'HGK', 'LMN']